‘Strike’ Star Tom Burke Requested BBC Media Training To Prepare For J.K. Rowling Trans Questions
deadline.comTom Burke says he requested media training from the BBC to help him handle questions about J.K Rowling’s strident views on transgender rights.
Burke is currently on the publicity trail for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, but he has recently filmed Season 6 of BBC/HBO series Strike, which Rowling pens under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
The actor told The Independent that he asked for media training ahead of an interview with the publication, during which he was careful to remain neutral on the trans debate. “I’ll preface all this by saying, what I want for that situation is for it to mend,” he said. “I want those disparate groups to find resolution.
I don’t want to say anything in the wrong context, or at the wrong time, which is going to make the situation worse, because it’s not nice, right?
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